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Topic Review (Newest First)

01-17-2015 03:07 AM

jasonchi

Planted+ PAR reading

If anyone still interested on PAR reading from
16" Finnex Planted+ I have them here. Its taken from Seneye reef with graph which includes PAR, LUX, and Kelvin.

I've also compared with two lights I got from Amazon supposely with 3W Cree 6500k LED 18W each.

Unfortunately, this fails to give us an idea of what the balance between the two looks like when combined.

There are roughly half as many red LEDs as white, but they are putting all their energy into a narrow band, while the white ones are spreading out over a broader band. I'd speculate that the red spike ends up being noticeably taller (maybe 50%-25% taller?) than the blue spike from the 7000k's, but that is only semi-educated guesswork.

08-22-2014 02:35 AM

Tetraodon

Is there a picture of the wavelength (nm) spectrum of the Planted+? (sorry if I've missed it somewhere obvious, but I can only find it for the red LEDs)

07-16-2014 01:48 PM

JP55g

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian_Cali77

Why don't you guys invest or rent a Licor meter? Is it that difficult? I would think that a company so invested in the business of lighting aquariums would absorb that into the cost of doing business.

+1

PAR readings for the planted+ would be very nice.

07-15-2014 11:24 PM

Scipio

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowe

Hey guys. Ya, I can get a quick reading on the Planted+ with an Apogee if you like. It won't be entirely accurate but it's something. Developing the new light, we have access to a proper Licor meter but sadly can't get it for the Planted+ atm.

Almost one month later........

06-23-2014 05:14 PM

Mark.burns43

People are having problems with fluvals new planted leds can't get a definate answer on par below 6 inches hahahah. I currently have a 24inch fluval on my 37 gallon tall tank would it beneorth buying one of these fuge ray planted plus 30 inch fixture as a add on to get some stronger light to the bottom I'm at 18 inches to sub strate ttying to grow hc

06-22-2014 07:39 PM

Brian_Cali77

Why don't you guys invest or rent a Licor meter? Is it that difficult? I would think that a company so invested in the business of lighting aquariums would absorb that into the cost of doing business.

06-22-2014 07:24 PM

xev11

Anything would be good!

06-20-2014 07:49 PM

Lowe

Hey guys. Ya, I can get a quick reading on the Planted+ with an Apogee if you like. It won't be entirely accurate but it's something. Developing the new light, we have access to a proper Licor meter but sadly can't get it for the Planted+ atm.

06-18-2014 04:21 PM

Ghia

The numbers for the Planted+ have been missing since the units were released. I doubt anyone at Finnex had a vacation since then.. ;-)

06-18-2014 04:20 PM

Veritas

Quote:

Originally Posted by jbrady33

They still respond, in between model releases right now - maybe Lowe is on vacation or something

but from what I understand they had access to high accuracy PAR equipment through a 3rd party at one point but it is unavailable now.

that would be correct. They lost access to their connection with an accurate PAR meter - and don't want to publish bad results.

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